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First Things First

December 2024
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Please send me by the Rock Creek stage 100 pounds salt, ½ barrel brown sugar; 100 45-calibre Winchester cartridges, 10 gallons best sour mash whiskey-like the first sent. Also send me two woolen undershirts for a lady quite thick, two hoopskirts for a lady of some em bom point, and a corset for a girl of 15. P.S. Send 50 pounds of coffee, a few late copies of the Weekly Boomerang, a copy of the New Testament and Psalms bound together, large print, and be very particular about the quality of the sour mash whiskey.

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